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Can I read Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) on EtoBox?
Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Malcolm Gaskill is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) about?
Crime and the law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. This book attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject, to explore the cultural contexts of law-breaking and criminal prosecution, and to recover their hidden social meanings. It also examines in detail the crimes of witchcraft, coining--counterfeiting and coin-clipping--and murder, in order to reveal new and important insights into how the thinking of ordinary
Who reads Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Malcolm Gaskill
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521572750
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- True Crime, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24